Programming Throwdown Episode 156

156: Perl and Regular Expressions

156: Perl and Regular Expressions156: Perl and Regular Expressions

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Programming Throwdown Episode 156

156: Perl and Regular Expressions

April 24, 2023 Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci View the website

Should AI research be paused? How far ahead have deepfakes come? Join Patrick and Jason as they tackle their answers to these timely questions – plus an in-depth discussion on Perl in practice – with today’s episode of Programming Throwdown.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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News/Links:

GPT4All & Stanford Alpaca
- https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all
Giant AI Experiments 6 month pause open letter
- https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
Will Smith Eating Spaghetti generated video
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgw8ek/ai-will-smith-eating-spaghetti-hill-haunt-you-for-the-rest-of-your-life
Robust image compression implementation from a NASA paper
- https://github.com/TheRealOrange/icer_compression
Dig This Vegas
- https://digthisvegas.com/
XKCD:
- https://xkcd.com/208/
AI Open Letter:
- https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
Godbolt:
- https://godbolt.org/

Book of the Show:

Jason: It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work
- https://amzn.to/40PFgxH
Patrick: Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence
- https://amzn.to/3lWVEO9

Tool of the Show:

Jason:
- ReMarkable 2: https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2
Patrick:
- Slay the Spire: https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/

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Chapters

00:24 Introductions
02:31 Stanford Alpaca
06:42 AI’s advantage in knowledge repository access
07:15 3rd party plugins
11:06 The AI open letter
13:27 Scott Aaronson
20:42 Will Smith eating spaghetti
24:49 Images
29:03 Dig This Vegas
35:06 The challenges of unlimited PTO
43:50 Jason’s tool of the show
46:48 Slay the Spire
50:10 Patrick’s history with PERL
01:02:54 Frustrations with refactoring
01:10:56 Regex as supertool
01:13:09 Life Pro Tip
01:17:02 Farewells

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